OpenAI o3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough">OpenAI o3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB</a></strong></p> Françoi [...]
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Quoting François Chollet 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough"><p>OpenAI's new o3 system - trained on the ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set - h [...]
Live blog: the 12th day of OpenAI - "Early evals for OpenAI o3" 🔗
<p>It's the final day of OpenAI's <a href="https://openai.com/12-days/">12 Days of OpenAI</a> launch series, and since I built <a href="https://t [...]
December in LLMs has been a lot 🔗
<p>I had big plans for December: for one thing, I was hoping to get to an actual RC of Datasette 1.0, in preparation for a full release in Januar [...]
Building effective agents 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents">Building effective agents</a></strong></p> My principal compla [...]
Quoting Marcus Hutchins 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://bsky.app/profile/malwaretech.com/post/3ldpfzxdyqs2d"><p>50% of cybersecurity is endlessly explaining that consumer VPNs [...]
Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode" 🔗
<p>Those new model releases just keep on flowing. Today it's Google's snappily named <code>gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp</code>, their first entr [...]
Is AI progress slowing down? 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-progress-slowing-down">Is AI progress slowing down?</a></strong></p> This piece by Arvind [...]
q and qv zsh functions for asking questions of websites and YouTube videos with LLM 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/davidgasquez/dotfiles/blob/bb9df4a369dbaef95ca0c35642de491c7dd41269/shell/zshrc#L50-L99">q and qv zsh fun [...]
Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects 🔗
<p>I've written a lot about how I've been using Claude to build one-shot HTML+JavaScript applications <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cla [...]
Java in the Small 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://horstmann.com/unblog/2024-12-11/index.html">Java in the Small</a></strong></p> Core Java author Cay Horstmann descri [...]
A new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-in-vscode-free/">A new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code [...]
A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/07/a-polite-disagreement-bot-ring-is-flooding-bluesky-reply-guy-as-a-disservice/">A polite d [...]
OpenAI WebRTC Audio demo 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/openai-webrtc">OpenAI WebRTC Audio demo</a></strong></p> OpenAI announced <a href="https://o [...]
Quoting Johann Rehberger 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/wunderwuzzi23/status/1869021456295682283"><p>Happy to share that Anthropic fixed a data leakage issue in th [...]
Quoting 2024 State of JavaScript survey 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://2024.stateofjs.com/en-US/"><p>2024's top three front end framework [React, Vue, Angular] were all launched over a decad [...]
Security ProbLLMs in xAI's Grok: A Deep Dive 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/security-probllms-in-xai-grok/">Security ProbLLMs in xAI's Grok: A Deep Dive< [...]
Veo 2 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://deepmind.google/technologies/veo/veo-2/">Veo 2</a></strong></p> Google's text-to-video model, now available via wait [...]
WebDev Arena 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://web.lmarena.ai/">WebDev Arena</a></strong></p> New leaderboard from the <a href="https://lmarena.ai/">Chatbot Arena< [...]
Phi-4 Technical Report 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08905">Phi-4 Technical Report</a></strong></p> Phi-4 is the latest LLM from Microsoft Research. I [...]
Preferring throwaway code over design docs 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/12/14/throwaway-prs-not-design-docs">Preferring throwaway code over design docs</a></stro [...]
In search of a faster SQLite 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://avi.im/blag/2024/faster-sqlite/">In search of a faster SQLite</a></strong></p> Turso developer Avinash Sajjanshetty [...]
Quoting Riley Goodside 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1868000367025553735"><p>An LLM knows every work of Shakespeare but can’t say which it read [...]
3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash." 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/">3 shell scripts to improve your wr [...]
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0elzk24dno">BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline</a></strong></p> Th [...]
OpenAI: Voice mode FAQ 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8400625-voice-mode-faq">OpenAI: Voice mode FAQ</a></strong></p> Given how impressed I wa [...]
<model-viewer> Web Component by Google 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://modelviewer.dev/"><model-viewer> Web Component by Google</a></strong></p> I learned about this Web Component f [...]
OpenAI's postmortem for API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://status.openai.com/incidents/ctrsv3lwd797">OpenAI's postmortem for API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues</a></st [...]
Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/clio">Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use</a></strong>< [...]
What does a board of directors do? 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.anildash.com//2024/06/20/dash-board/">What does a board of directors do?</a></strong></p> Extremely useful guide [...]